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Re: Now: O14 group birthday - started 28th November 2004 - Thursday, November 28, 2024
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开云体育Hi Gents, I think special accolades are in order for David from KB Scale for keeping Roy’s range of locos, rolling stock and accessories alive! ? Also, Paul’s support with the re-gauging of the L&B models would have been a special prize for those modelling the L&B. With the ever diminishing number of suppliers and support services available, it was sensational for Paul take on this project, and I am sure it would have been a very labour intensive modification exercise. ? Reading some of our member stories, it appears common that some projects take years (or decades?). I have probably not been as productive as I should have been with very little O14 modelling in the last 10 years. I have actually accumulated a reasonable roster of Listers other locos and rolling stock which will be adequate for when my grand O14 project happens. I am finding the primary impediment to be the track building. I have all the track gauges and frog jigs etc, however I do find track building to be the most tedious part of model railways. I am aware that Paul now has some r-t-r ?track available, however his website shows this currently as “Out of stock”. Maybe over the Christmas break, I should start making a few points? ? Bruce ? From: Allan Dare via groups.io
Sent: 2 December, 2024 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [o14] Now: O14 group birthday - started 28th November
2004 - Thursday, November 28, 2024 #cal-notice ?
I
wonder how many of us got into O14 by accident, or nearly so?
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Back when the Greenwich show was still in Greenwich I bought one of Roy
Link’s first batch of Rustons plus some skips (and a horse as back-up power to
the loco!). The kit was for 14mm gauge, so for no better reason that’s what I
built, together with a very small “skips with everything” diorama. This reached
the operable-but-unscenicked stage before my butterfly mind switched to
something else.
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Fast forward a few years, and on a whim I picked up an unbuilt Peco Hunslet
and Branchlines chassis from the 7mmNGA sales stand. I dithered over which gauge
to build it to, but eventually decided on 14mm purely to match the Ruston.
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Forward a few more years, and I bought the Alan Gibson kit for “Lew”. The
earlier locos dictated the choice of 14mm gauge, but I now discovered its
benefits - it not only looks better, but gives far better clearances between the
frames on outside-frame locos. A Wrightlines Baldwin showed similar clearance
benefits on an inside-frame loco, both in the crucial areas behind the
crossheads, and for bogie swing without clouting the back of the
cylinders.? More recent projects such as an NGG16 Garratt and L&B Lyn
have likewise been no harder in O14 than in O16.5.
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I now tell people that I model in O14 because, in contrast to EM and P4,
it’s actually easier than its commercial-gauge equivalent. It’s kind of true….
but inertia is the real reason!
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Allan
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On 1 Dec 2024, at 20:34, Peter Tarver via groups.io <peter_tarver@...> wrote:
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